Oral history interview with John Thomas Outlaw, June 5, 1980
Subtitle: interview H-0277, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Tullos, Allen, 1950- interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Executives; Trucking; Transportation and state; Rates; Interstate commerce; Truck drivers; Labor unions; United States. Interstate Commerce Commission; United States
Other titles: Interview H-0277, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with John Thomas Outlaw, June 5, 1980; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: When trucking companies in North Carolina came under pressure from state legislators to comply with new regulations, they decided to establish a rate bureau and looked to John Thomas Outlaw to head the operation. Outlaw left his home state, South Carolina, to do so. In this interview, however, rather than describing his personal experiences, he outlines the growth of the trucking industry in the South during the 20th century and some of the issues trucking companies faced, such as an increasingly complex set of regulations and the growing need for technical expertise. He connects trucking to the spread of railroads and paved roads, and offers his thoughts on the mildly successful incursion of unions into the industry. This interview, though brief, will be a rich resource for researchers interested in the trucking industry in North Carolina and the South as a whole.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 20, 2008).

Interview participants: John Thomas Outlaw, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer.

Duration: 01:23:59.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 120 kilobytes, 153 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0277, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 33 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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